Hidden GoldBrock Sargent and Pat Volpondo were raised together from boyhood; for the last ten years they had saved their money to buy a ranch together. Now Pat is dead, dragged by his horse--and Brock is certain it was murder. He comes to the mining town of Weston, Colorado, looking for answers and finds too many and a pack of trouble besides. First he finds out that, in addition to wrangling, Pat had been working undercover for the railroad. Then he learns that a hundred thousand dollar gold shipment-- the Smuggler Mine payroll-- has been stolen. While Brock struggles to make sense of it all, the members of the gang that pulled off the robbery begin getting killed, one by one, and no one knows the whereabouts of the gold ... |
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